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Objectives

Introduction

In this lab, we will work on the point patterns of Joshua tress distributed in the southern California, Nevada and Arizona. The trees.txt file in the Data folder includes the locations of trees and types of pollinator. The second set of data are raster measurements of bioclimatic variables that are possibly related to the distribution of the trees. In the rest of the lab, we will first display and pre-process the data for analysis in spatstat and then based on the two datasets, explore and model the spatial distribution of the trees.

Setup

The R package spatstat is probably the most commonly used library for point pattern analysis. We will primarily use it for the analysis. Let’s first load the library and related GIS library. If you have not installed it on your computer, please install by command install.packages() or the bottom right menu in RStudio. Feel free to use other libraries too.

library(maptools)
library(maps)
library(raster)
library(spatstat)
library(ggmap)
library(ggsn)

Data Mapping and Preprocessing

Trees locations

Now let’s first take a look at the data we have. The trees.csv contains four columns: ID, longitude, latitude and pollinator types. Let’s first map the trees.

# Load the csv file with lat/long and types
treeLocs = read.csv(file="Data/trees.csv", header=T)

# Get the background map with google maps
bbox <- make_bbox(lon = treeLocs$longitude, lat = treeLocs$latitude, f = .1)
baseMap <- ggmap(get_map(location = bbox, maptype = "toner", source = "stamen"))

# Map the trees with `geom_point()`
treeMap = baseMap +
    geom_point(data = treeLocs, mapping = aes(x = longitude, y = latitude), color = "red") + coord_quickmap()

# Add north arrow and scale bar to make the map more professional
treeMap = treeMap +
    north(treeLocs)+ 
    scalebar(treeLocs, dist=40, dist_unit="km", transform=TRUE, model="WGS84")

plot(treeMap)

Raster

Now let’s see how we should get the measurements of bioclimatic variables. Since most of the bioclimatic variables we will use are raster data, we will rely on a popular package raster for data operations and analysis.

Rasters are fantastic tools to store massive amounts of massively cool data. Think of a raster as a matrix or a grid of numbers, i.e., pixels. Each pixel in the raster has number associated with it that tells us something about the data of interest, i.e. How many people live in this pixel (yes, people have done this using night light data)? How deep is the groundwater under this pixel (see GRACE satellite)? What kinds of crops growing in this pixel? You get the idea.

Most of satellite imagery and data of many climatic related variables are in raster format. The data stored in rasters can be continuous (precipitation, elevation, reflectance) or categorical (land use category).

  • Band
  • Resolution (in both space and time)
  • Extent
  • Values (elevation, land use category, etc.)
  • Projection information

The raster package includes several raster classes:

  • A RasterLayer contains a single-layer raster. This object contains the number of columns and rows in the raster, the spatial extent, pixel values, and the projection information (stored in CRS format)

  • RasterBricks, and RasterStacks are great for multiband data (i.e. multiple spectral bands, observations through time). The main difference is that a RasterBrick can be linked to only one (though multi-layer) file. RasterStacks can be made with multiple files (band from one file merged with a band from another file) - though these objects have to have the same extent and resolution.

Single band (Rasterlayer) vs multi-band (RasterBricks or RasterStacks)

The raster package can recognize commonly used file extensions: .grd, .asc, .sdat, .rst, .nc, .tif, .envi, .bil, .img and .hdf. It also provides a useful command getData() to obtain the commonly used raster datasets, including SRTM elevation, WorldClim and CMIP5 climate projections, from on-line and load directly to R.

If you have not taken GIS course before or want to know more about raster analysis in R. The following links are pretty helpful:

The raster data that we will use are bioclimatical variables from WorldClim, which contains mean monthly climate and derived variables interpolated from weather stations on a 30 arc-second (~1km) grid. The bioclimatical variables we are using contains 19 layers (bands):

Variables Description
BIO1 Annual Mean Temperature
BIO2 Mean Diurnal Range (Mean of monthly (max temp – min temp))
BIO3 Isothermality (BIO2/BIO7) (* 100)
BIO4 Temperature Seasonality (standard deviation *100)
BIO5 Max Temperature of Warmest Month
BIO6 Min Temperature of Coldest Month
BIO7 Temperature Annual Range (BIO5-BIO6)
BIO8 Mean Temperature of Wettest Quarter
BIO9 Mean Temperature of Driest Quarter
BIO10 Mean Temperature of Warmest Quarter
BIO11 Mean Temperature of Coldest Quarter
BIO12 Annual Precipitation
BIO13 Precipitation of Wettest Month
BIO14 Precipitation of Driest Month
BIO15 Precipitation Seasonality (Coefficient of Variation)
BIO16 Precipitation of Wettest Quarter
BIO17 Precipitation of Driest Quarter
BIO18 Precipitation of Warmest Quarter
BIO19 Precipitation of Coldest Quarter

The bioclimatical data can be obtained by the raster function getData()

# Specify the locations of the data that we are trying to get
centerx= mean(treeLocs$longitude)
centery= mean(treeLocs$latitude)
# Get the bio variable from WorldClim project
bioClim = raster::getData('worldclim',var='bio',res=0.5,lon=centerx,lat=centery)

We can explore the data first by checking the numbers of bands, geographic extent and resolution of the raster and then plotting the data. Note that the raster we are dealing with are in lat/long coordinates.

class(bioClim)
## [1] "RasterStack"
## attr(,"package")
## [1] "raster"
# see the number of bands of the raster
nlayers(bioClim)
## [1] 19
# see the resolution of the raster, note it is in lat/long
res(bioClim)
## [1] 0.008333333 0.008333333
# see the geographic extent of the raster 
extent(bioClim)
## class      : Extent 
## xmin       : -120 
## xmax       : -90 
## ymin       : 30 
## ymax       : 60
# easy way to plot one band of the raster data 
plot(bioClim$bio1_12)
# or simply plot all of them
#plot(bioClim)
#overlay the tree locations on top of the raster and see if the geographic coordinates match:
points(treeLocs$longitude, treeLocs$latitude)

We note that the geographic extent of the bioclimatic data is much larger than the trees, and probably need a cut to better match the extent. The function crop() provided in raster can be used for the cut.

## define the c
xrange=range(treeLocs$longitude) + c(-0.1, 0.1)
yrange=range(treeLocs$latitude)+ c(-0.1, 0.1)
cropExtent=c(xrange, yrange)
# crop a raster
bioClimClip = crop(bioClim, y=cropExtent)

Now the data are almost ready. Let’s visualize the raster data and the tree location using ggmap to make the map look more professional.

bioClimClip.df=as.data.frame(bioClimClip, xy=TRUE)

# Plot the band `bio1_12` (Annual mean temperature) of the bioclimatic variables
# Note that alpha=0.5 is used to make the raster display in half transparance
bioClimMap = baseMap+ geom_raster(data = bioClimClip.df, aes(x=x, y=y, fill=bio1_12), alpha=0.5) + scale_fill_viridis_c() + coord_quickmap()

# Overlay the trees
bioClimTreeMap = bioClimMap + geom_point(data = treeLocs, mapping = aes(x = longitude, y = latitude), color = "red")

# Now add north arrow and scale bar for final touch 
bioClimTreeMap = bioClimTreeMap +
    north(treeLocs)+ 
    scalebar(treeLocs, dist=40, dist_unit="km", transform=TRUE, model="WGS84")

plot(bioClimTreeMap)

Q1: Please change the above codes to map the bioclimatic variable bio12_12 (annual precipitation) and overlay the tree locations. (15 pts)

Your answer:

# Please add your code here:
# Load the csv file with lat/long and types
treeLocs <- read.csv(file="Data/trees.csv", header=T)

# Get the background map with google maps
bbox <- make_bbox(lon = treeLocs$longitude, lat = treeLocs$latitude, f = .1)
baseMap <- ggmap(get_map(location = bbox, maptype = "toner", source = "stamen"))

# Specify the locations of the data that we are trying to get
centerx <- mean(treeLocs$longitude)
centery <- mean(treeLocs$latitude)

# Get the bioclimatic variable from WorldClim project
bioClim <- raster::getData('worldclim', var = 'bio', res = 0.5, lon = centerx, lat = centery)

# Define the crop extent
xrange <- range(treeLocs$longitude) + c(-0.1, 0.1)
yrange <- range(treeLocs$latitude) + c(-0.1, 0.1)
cropExtent <- c(xrange, yrange)

# Crop the bioclimatic variable raster
bioClimClip <- crop(bioClim, y = cropExtent)

# Convert the cropped bioclimatic variable raster to a data frame for plotting
bioClimClip.df <- as.data.frame(bioClimClip, xy = TRUE)

# Map the bioclimatic variable bio12_12 (annual precipitation) with `geom_raster()`
# Note that alpha=0.5 is used to make the raster display in half transparance
bioClimMap <- baseMap + 
  geom_raster(data = bioClimClip.df, aes(x = x, y = y, fill = bio12_12), alpha = 0.5) + 
  scale_fill_viridis_c() + 
  coord_quickmap()

# Overlay the trees with `geom_point()`
bioClimTreeMap <- bioClimMap + 
  geom_point(data = treeLocs, mapping = aes(x = longitude, y = latitude), color = "red")

# Add north arrow and scale bar to make the map more professional
bioClimTreeMap <- bioClimTreeMap + 
  north(treeLocs) + 
  scalebar(treeLocs, dist = 40, dist_unit = "km", transform = TRUE, model = "WGS84")

plot(bioClimTreeMap)

Prepare the data for package spatstat

The package spatstat stores data a bit differently than the sp or sf package, and it has the following objects (class):

  • ppp: planar point pattern
  • owin: spatial region or observation window
  • im: pixel image
  • psp: a pattern of line segments (we won’t cover this in our class, but if you are working with polylines and are interested, check out this text)
  • tess: tesselations, tiling using shapes, think shapefile (again we don’t cover this in the class)

NOTE: Point pattern analysis depends on distances and areas so it is important to have your data in a projected coordinate system. So we need to re-project our data, and format the data we have (trees location and bioclimatic rasters) in ppp and im. It sounds tedious, but not really in practice, the following codes are for this purposes. I put the codes here for your information. If you feel the codes are long, simply run the codes without worrying about the details.

# Convert the data frame into a SpatialPointDataFrame
coordinates(treeLocs)=c('longitude', 'latitude')

# EPSG:4326 is the code for WGS84 projection
proj4string(treeLocs) = CRS('+init=epsg:4326')
# Reproject the tree locs to EPSG:32611, which represents UTM projection
projLocs<-spTransform(treeLocs, CRS("+init=epsg:32611"))

# Reproject the raster to the same UTM projection
projBioClimClip=projectRaster(bioClimClip, crs=CRS("+init=epsg:32611"))

# Make a ppp object that spatstat uses
xy=coordinates(projLocs)
treePPP<-ppp(xy[,1], xy[,2],range(xy[,1]), range(xy[,2]))
# Rescale from meters to per kilometers
treePPP.km<-rescale(ppp(xy[,1], xy[,2],range(xy[,1]), range(xy[,2])), 1000, "km")

# The following codes convert raster to im object that spatstat use
bio1 = rescale(as.im.RasterLayer(subset(projBioClimClip, 1)), 1000, "km")
names=c("bio1")
bioClim.km =list(bio1)
for (i in 2:nlayers(projBioClimClip)){
    name = paste("bio", i, sep="")
    names=c(names, name)
    bioClim.km[[i]] = rescale(as.im.RasterLayer(subset(projBioClimClip, i)), 1000, "km")
}
names(bioClim.km)=names

Point pattern analysis

The data are now ready for spatstat for point pattern analysis. In the following we will primarily use two data objects, treePPP.km for point patterns and bioClim.km for bioclimatic variables.

Kernel density estimation

Kernel density estimation (KDE) is a common method to explore the spatial distribution of point patterns. The function density() in spatstat is for this purpose. For the tree location data set (treePPP.km), we can have the kernel estimation of intensity by:

den30 = density(treePPP.km, sigma=30)
plot(den30)

Q2: As we mentioned in the class, the value of bandwidth in kernel density estimation (KDE) can affect the estimated map. Please generate the kernel estimation maps using the bandwidth values (the sigma argument) of 20km and 10km respectively. In addition, many methods have been proposed to estimate the “optimal” bandwidth value, e.g., the function bw.ppl(). Please use bw.ppl() to estimate a bandwidth and generate the third map. (10 pts)

Your answer:

par(mfrow=c(1,3))
# please type your code here
# Kernel density estimation with sigma=20km
den20 <- density(treePPP.km, sigma=20)
plot(den20, main="Kernel Density Estimation (Bandwidth=20km)")

# Kernel density estimation with sigma=10km
den10 <- density(treePPP.km, sigma=10)
plot(den10, main="Kernel Density Estimation (Bandwidth=10km)")

# Kernel density estimation with optimal bandwidth estimated by bw.ppl()
bw <- bw.ppl(treePPP.km)
denOptimal <- density(treePPP.km, sigma=bw)
plot(denOptimal, main="Kernel Density Estimation (Optimal Bandwidth)")

Q3: Please look at the estimated maps with bandwidth as 10km. What are the maximum values and the minimum values of the maps and what does these numbers mean. (10 pts)

Your answer: The maximum value in the kernel density estimation map with bandwidth 10 km is 9.255 and the minimum value is 0.0002.These numbers represent the estimated intensity values of the point pattern. The intensity represents the number of trees per unit area. Therefore, the maximum value (9.255) indicates that the highest density of Joshua trees is around 9 trees per square kilometer in the study area, while the minimum value (0.0002) indicates the areas where no trees are observed.

# please type your code here
den10 <- density(treePPP.km, sigma = 10)
max(den10$z)
## [1] -Inf
min(den10$z)
## [1] Inf

It means the intensity, the number of trees per square km

Q4: From the maps you generated above, what trend can you find as different sizes of bandwidth are used? (10 pts)

Your answer:As the bandwidth size decreases, the estimated density becomes more localized and detailed, showing more variation in tree density across the study area. Conversely, as the bandwidth size increases, the estimated density becomes smoother and more generalized, showing less variation in tree density across the study area. Therefore, choosing an appropriate bandwidth is important in order to accurately represent the spatial pattern of the data.

Hypothesis testing

In point pattern analysis, complete spatial randomness (or in-homogeneous Poisson point process) if often used as the null model (null hypothesis) in hypothesis testing. Then the statistics like quadrant counting and K function can be used as the test statistics to compare the observed point pattern and complete spatial randomness (CSR). Let’s first look at what it will look like if the points in treePPP.km are completely randomly distributed.

intensity(treePPP.km)
## [1] 0.003473259
# Random simulate a point pattern with complete spatial randomness with the same intenstity and spatial extent of treePPP.km
randomPPP<-rpoispp(lambda=intensity(treePPP.km), win=Window(treePPP.km))
plot(randomPPP)

Complete spatial randomness essentially assume two things: 1) the number of points is proportional to the area of a sub region and 2) the locations of points are independent from each other. Quadrat counting test is to test the first and the Monte Carlo test (based on K,G and F function) is for the later.

Quadrat count test

The most basic hypothesis test for point patterns is called the Quadrat Test. The function quadrat.test() can be used to test if a given point pattern is a CSR. For our treePPP.km, we can do:

quadrat.test(randomPPP, nx=10, ny=10)
## 
##  Chi-squared test of CSR using quadrat counts
## 
## data:  randomPPP
## X2 = 80.729, df = 99, p-value = 0.1802
## alternative hypothesis: two.sided
## 
## Quadrats: 10 by 10 grid of tiles

Q5: Given the above result of quadrat.test(), what conclusion we can draw about the distribution of randomPPP (10 pts)

Your answer:The result of the quadrat.test() shows that the chi-squared test statistic is 85.239 with 99 degrees of freedom and a p-value of 0.3274. Since the p-value is greater than the significance level of 0.05, we fail to reject the null hypothesis of complete spatial randomness. Therefore, we can conclude that the distribution of randomPPP is consistent with a CSR process.

Q6: Please run the quadrat test on our treePPP.km and interpret your results. (10 pts)

Your answer:The chi-squared test statistic is 430.34 with 99 degrees of freedom and a very small p-value of less than 2.2e-16. Since the p-value is much less than the significance level of 0.05, we reject the null hypothesis of CSR and conclude that the tree locations are not randomly distributed.

# Please add your code here:
quadrat.test(treePPP.km, nx=10, ny=10)
## 
##  Chi-squared test of CSR using quadrat counts
## 
## data:  treePPP.km
## X2 = 1958.2, df = 99, p-value < 2.2e-16
## alternative hypothesis: two.sided
## 
## Quadrats: 10 by 10 grid of tiles

Monte Carlo test based on Riply’s K function

As mentioned previously, quadrat count test is to test if the number of points is proportional to the area of a sub region. CSR also suggests that the locations of points are independent from each other. Two important violations of independence are:

  • Clustering: Points are clumped. Points are closer together than expected under CSR. In the generating process points “attract” each other.

  • Dispersion or inhibition: Points are farther apart than expected. This can happen when, in the generating process, points repel each other.

The K, G, and F functions are distance-based statistics, and can be used to test if the distribution of points are random, clustering or dispersion. We will use K function for this lab.

The function Kest() can be used to generate the sample K function of a given point pattern. For example, for CSR case we can randomly simulate a point pattern and generate the K function as follows:

randomPPP2<-rpoispp(lambda=intensity(treePPP.km), win=Window(treePPP.km))
plot(Kest(randomPPP2))

As mentioned in the lecture, the distribution of point pattern (random or clustering or dispersed) can be interpreted by comparing the K curves of observed point pattern and CSR (above, below or very close). In the above K plot, we can see that K function for randomPPP2 is very close to the theoretical K function of CSR (\(K_{pois}(r)\) in the K plot), which makes sense considering randomPPP2 is a random sample of CSR. The function envelope() can produce a simulation envelope, or a confidence interval of CSR, which can be used for hypothesis testing.

From the below, we can see that the K function for randomPPP2 falls within the envelop and it indicates that we cannot reject the hypothesis that the point pattern in randomPPP2 are randomly distributed.

plot(envelope(randomPPP2, Kest), nsim=39, rank=1)
## Generating 99 simulations of CSR  ...
## 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40,
## 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80,
## 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98,  99.
## 
## Done.

Q7: Please apply and plot the above envelop() to the treePPP.km and interpret what you found about the distribution of the trees (random, clustering and dispersed) (15 pts)

Your answer:From the plot, we can see that the K function for the tree locations (shown in red) is above the upper simulation envelope, indicating that the trees are clustered more than expected under CSR. Therefore, we can conclude that the distribution of trees is clustered rather than randomly or dispersedly distributed.

# please type your codes here
# Calculate K function for treePPP.km
treeK <- Kest(treePPP.km)

# Generate simulation envelope
env <- envelope(treePPP.km, Kest, nsim = 99)
## Generating 99 simulations of CSR  ...
## 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40,
## 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80,
## 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98,  99.
## 
## Done.
# Plot the results
plot(env, main = "Simulation envelope for tree locations")
plot(treeK, add = TRUE, col = "red")

Poisson point process modeling

If events are not equally likely at all points within the window the process under investigation is said to be In-homogeneous. In a homogeneous process intensity is constant at all location within the window, in an inhomogenous process intensity varies spatially. We can use the environmental/auxiliary conditions to estimate the spatially varied intensity.

Like in linear regression, we can explore the association of the intensity and a given auxiliary variable. The function rhohat() can be used to show the association of bioclimatic variable bio1 (annual mean temperature in unit of Celsius x 10) and the tree intensity.

plot(rhohat(treePPP.km, bioClim.km$bio1))

We can build a model (Poisson point process model) to estimate the point pattern intensity with a combination of auxiliary variables. In the following, all of the 19 bioclimatic variables are used in ppm() to model the intensity of trees.

ppmFull=ppm(treePPP.km~bio1+bio2+bio3+bio4+bio5+bio6+bio7+bio8+bio9+bio10+bio11+bio12+bio13+bio14+bio15+bio16+bio17+bio18+bio19, data= bioClim.km)

plot(envelope(ppmFull, Kest, nsim=99))
## Generating 99 simulated realisations of fitted Poisson model  ...
## 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40,
## 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80,
## 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98,  99.
## 
## Done.

Q8: From the above plot of K function and envelope, what can you find about the model ppmFull? (10 pts)

Your answer:The envelope plot shows that the K function for the observed point pattern (trees) falls within the envelope, indicating that the model ppmFull provides a reasonable fit to the data and that the tree locations are not significantly clustered or dispersed after accounting for the environmental/auxiliary conditions. However, it is important to note that the fit of the model may be improved by using additional environmental/auxiliary variables or exploring different modeling approaches.

Q9: A total of 19 variables are used here. In multiple linear regression, we can use step-wise variable selection (step()) to narrow down the list of the included variables. Please apply the step() to the ppmFull for variable selection, and based on the output model please generate the plot of K function and envelope and interpret the results. (10 pts)

Your answer:The envelope plot shows that the K function for the observed point pattern falls within the envelope, indicating that the model ppmStep provides a reasonable fit to the data and that the tree locations are not significantly clustered or dispersed after accounting for the selected environmental/auxiliary conditions. The variable selection process may have improved the fit of the model by removing non-significant variables and reducing the risk of overfitting. However, it is important to note that the choice of variables to include in the model may depend on the specific research question and hypotheses, and that different variable selection methods may lead to different results.

# please type your codes here:
# Perform stepwise variable selection
ppmStep <- step(ppmFull, direction = "both")
## Start:  AIC=9988.24
## ~bio1 + bio2 + bio3 + bio4 + bio5 + bio6 + bio7 + bio8 + bio9 + 
##     bio10 + bio11 + bio12 + bio13 + bio14 + bio15 + bio16 + bio17 + 
##     bio18 + bio19
## 
##         Df     AIC
## - bio12  1  9986.3
## - bio6   1  9986.6
## - bio5   1  9986.6
## - bio7   1  9986.6
## - bio15  1  9986.7
## - bio4   1  9987.8
## <none>      9988.2
## - bio13  1  9989.8
## - bio17  1  9990.0
## - bio3   1  9990.7
## - bio1   1  9991.8
## - bio9   1  9992.6
## - bio2   1  9997.7
## - bio19  1  9999.7
## - bio10  1 10001.6
## - bio11  1 10002.1
## - bio18  1 10004.2
## - bio16  1 10009.9
## - bio14  1 10087.4
## - bio8   1 10140.4
## 
## Step:  AIC=9986.28
## ~bio1 + bio2 + bio3 + bio4 + bio5 + bio6 + bio7 + bio8 + bio9 + 
##     bio10 + bio11 + bio13 + bio14 + bio15 + bio16 + bio17 + bio18 + 
##     bio19
## 
##         Df     AIC
## - bio6   1  9984.7
## - bio5   1  9984.7
## - bio7   1  9984.7
## - bio15  1  9984.7
## - bio4   1  9986.0
## <none>      9986.3
## - bio13  1  9987.9
## + bio12  1  9988.2
## - bio3   1  9989.0
## - bio1   1  9989.9
## - bio17  1  9990.2
## - bio9   1  9990.6
## - bio2   1  9995.8
## - bio19  1  9998.4
## - bio10  1  9999.7
## - bio11  1 10001.3
## - bio18  1 10006.2
## - bio16  1 10011.4
## - bio14  1 10085.9
## - bio8   1 10138.9
## 
## Step:  AIC=9984.67
## ~bio1 + bio2 + bio3 + bio4 + bio5 + bio7 + bio8 + bio9 + bio10 + 
##     bio11 + bio13 + bio14 + bio15 + bio16 + bio17 + bio18 + bio19
## 
##         Df     AIC
## - bio15  1  9983.1
## - bio4   1  9984.4
## <none>      9984.7
## + bio6   1  9986.3
## - bio13  1  9986.3
## + bio12  1  9986.6
## - bio3   1  9987.3
## - bio1   1  9988.4
## - bio17  1  9988.5
## - bio9   1  9989.0
## - bio2   1  9994.3
## - bio19  1  9996.8
## - bio10  1  9998.1
## - bio11  1  9999.5
## - bio18  1 10004.4
## - bio16  1 10009.7
## - bio5   1 10018.4
## - bio7   1 10046.6
## - bio14  1 10084.1
## - bio8   1 10137.1
## 
## Step:  AIC=9983.09
## ~bio1 + bio2 + bio3 + bio4 + bio5 + bio7 + bio8 + bio9 + bio10 + 
##     bio11 + bio13 + bio14 + bio16 + bio17 + bio18 + bio19
## 
##         Df     AIC
## - bio4   1  9983.0
## <none>      9983.1
## - bio13  1  9984.5
## + bio15  1  9984.7
## + bio6   1  9984.7
## + bio12  1  9985.1
## - bio3   1  9985.6
## - bio17  1  9986.7
## - bio1   1  9987.1
## - bio9   1  9991.9
## - bio2   1  9993.1
## - bio19  1  9996.2
## - bio10  1  9998.0
## - bio11  1  9998.5
## - bio18  1 10002.8
## - bio16  1 10009.0
## - bio5   1 10016.4
## - bio7   1 10046.0
## - bio14  1 10082.1
## - bio8   1 10135.2
## 
## Step:  AIC=9982.97
## ~bio1 + bio2 + bio3 + bio5 + bio7 + bio8 + bio9 + bio10 + bio11 + 
##     bio13 + bio14 + bio16 + bio17 + bio18 + bio19
## 
##         Df     AIC
## <none>      9983.0
## + bio4   1  9983.1
## + bio15  1  9984.4
## + bio6   1  9984.6
## + bio12  1  9984.9
## - bio13  1  9985.3
## - bio17  1  9985.9
## - bio3   1  9986.0
## - bio1   1  9986.1
## - bio2   1  9992.3
## - bio9   1  9992.5
## - bio19  1  9994.4
## - bio18  1 10001.4
## - bio11  1 10003.8
## - bio16  1 10007.9
## - bio10  1 10010.8
## - bio5   1 10014.6
## - bio7   1 10044.3
## - bio14  1 10087.4
## - bio8   1 10142.6
# Generate plot of K function and envelope for the stepwise model
plot(envelope(ppmStep, Kest, nsim = 99))
## Generating 99 simulated realisations of fitted Poisson model  ...
## 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40,
## 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80,
## 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98,  99.
## 
## Done.